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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2003.

Specific locations[]

  • 2003 in British music
  • 2003 in Irish music
  • 2003 in Norwegian music
  • 2003 in South Korean music

Specific genres[]

  • 2003 in classical music
  • 2003 in country music
  • 2003 in heavy metal music
  • 2003 in hip hop music
  • 2003 in Latin music
  • 2003 in jazz

Events[]

January–February[]

  • January 6 – The annual Park Lane Group Young Artists festival of contemporary music opens with two concerts in the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, London. The first concert, given by the Gallimaufry Ensemble, includes the premiere of a new wind quintet by 23-year-old Benjamin Wallfisch; the second concert features solo bass clarinettist Sarah Watts, who premieres Marc Yeats Vox for solo bass clarinet and Michael Smetanin's Ladder of Escape for bass clarinet with prerecorded ensemble of six bass and two contrabass clarinets.[1]
  • January 7 – The Philip on Film Live festival (until January 11) opens at the Barbican Centre, London, featuring films with music by Philip Glass performed live by the Philip Glass Ensemble, conducted by Michael Riesman.[2]
  • January 9 – The Vienna Philharmonic belatedly announce that violist Ursula Plaichinger has become the first official female member of the orchestra, 158 years after their founding and six years after they have been forced to allow women to audition, under threat of having their state subsidies stopped. At the same time, it is disclosed that orchestra boss Clemens Hellsberg has formally banned Plaichinger from giving interviews to the press.[3]
  • January 10
    • Andrew Lack, former chief of NBC news, is named the new head of Sony's music division, to the surprise of the music industry, because he had no previous experience of the record industry.[4] He replaced Tommy Mottola, who resigned the previous day amidst reports of friction with higher Sony executives over huge financial losses in the music division.[5]
    • Following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in the UK and the Netherlands recover 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested. The tapes have been used for bootleg releases for years.[6]
  • January 13The Who guitarist Pete Townshend is arrested by British police on suspicion of possessing and making indecent images of children and of incitement to distribute them. Townshend claims in a statement that he did not download any such images and accessed Web sites advertising child pornography because he was researching material for his autobiography, which will include passages about his abusive childhood.[7]
  • January 17February 2 – The Big Day Out festival takes place in Australia and New Zealand, headlined by Foo Fighters, Jane's Addiction and Underworld.
  • January 18
    • The Indian Air Force band, the Air Warriors, play a concert in the Homi Baba Auditorium in Colaba (Mumbai), which included Muthuswami Dikshitar's Vathapiganapathi in a version combining military band with traditional Carnatic instruments.[8]
    • A two-day festival of the music of Mark-Anthony Turnage is given at the Barbican Centre, London, with three world premieres and chamber concerts by the Nash Ensemble and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.[9]
  • January 22Nikolaus Harnoncourt cancels a European tour after being ordered by his doctors to take a two-month rest.[10]
  • January 31Johnny Cash releases the music video for "Hurt".
  • February 3
    • Police respond to a 911 phone call from one of Phil Spector's neighbors and discover the body of actress Lana Clarkson, with a gunshot wound, at Spector's his home in Alhambra, California. Spector is arrested on suspicion of murder.[11]
    • The Martin Bashir television film Living with Michael Jackson premieres on ITV in the UK. It airs on ABC in the US three days later.[12] A total of 53 million viewers in the two countries watch the special.
  • February 8Avril Lavigne scores her third #1 single "I'm with You", making her the second artist in history to have three consecutive #1 songs from a début album in the Billboard Mainstream Top 40.
  • February 20The Station nightclub fire: Fire engulfs a Rhode Island nightclub during a fireworks display which was part of the performance by rock band Great White. The fire quickly spreads across the ceiling, filling the building with thick, black smoke, killing 100 people and injuring 160 others as audience members rush for the exits. Many people are missing for some time, including Great White guitarist Ty Longley, who is later confirmed to be dead.[13]
  • February 23 – New York City is the site of The 45th Annual Grammy Awards, featuring Nickelback, No Doubt, Foo Fighters, Beyoncé and other performers. Norah Jones wins a total of six awards, including all four in the General field.
  • February 24Robert Trujillo joins Metallica.

March–April[]

  • March 3Avril Lavigne kicks off her first headlining tour the "Try To Shut Me Up Tour".
  • March 10
    • Johnny Cash is admitted to Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee to undergo treatment for pneumonia.
    • The Dixie Chicks unleash a firestorm of controversy at a concert in London when lead singer Natalie Maines announces to the audience that "just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas". The group is dropped from radio playlists all over the United States and receives death threats as a result.[14]
  • March 21 – Ex-Neighbours star Delta Goodrem releases her debut album Innocent Eyes which became Australia's monster smash hit of 2003 and included the releases of the new singles "Born to Try" and "Lost Without You".
  • March 24Meteora by Linkin Park debuts at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart.
  • March 25Céline Dion begins A New Day..., her Las Vegas residency show. It would run for almost five years and over 700 shows.
  • April 1 – Dozens of fans walk out during a Pearl Jam concert when lead singer Eddie Vedder makes comments opposing the Iraq war and insulting remarks about U.S. President George W. Bush. Other audience members boo and shout at Vedder telling him to "shut up." Vedder attempts to calm the crowd by adding "just to clarify... we support the troops."
  • 4 AprilAlex Katunich quits Incubus.[15]
  • April 8Godsmack releases their third studio album Faceless.
  • April 16Luther Vandross suffers a severe stroke at his home in New York City. He emerges from a coma six weeks later.
  • April 21S Club announce live on stage at London's Docklands Arena that they've decided to split up after five years together. Their final single, "Say Goodbye", enters the chart at #2 a month after the announcement. Rachel Stevens from the group launched her successful solo career shortly afterwards with the song "Sweet Dreams My LA Ex".
  • April 26-27 – The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival takes place in California. Headlined by Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chili Peppers, the lineup also features Queens of the Stone Age, Iggy and the Stooges, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Blur, The White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Black Eyed Peas, Interpol, The Mars Volta, N.E.R.D and Primal Scream.
  • April 28Apple Inc. opens the iTunes Music Store, offering 200,000 songs for download at a cost of 99 cents each. More than 1 million songs are sold in the store's first week.[16]

May–June[]

  • May 7Pete Townshend is cleared of the charges stemming from his arrest in January on suspicion of possessing child pornography, but is formally cautioned and placed on the sex offenders register for five years.[17]
  • May 19 – The former TV channel MuchMusic USA relaunches as Fuse.
  • May 21Ruben Studdard wins the second season of American Idol, edging Clay Aiken.
  • May 24
    • Turkish singer Sertab Erener wins the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Riga, Latvia, with the song "Everyway That I Can". It is the last time that the contest is a one-night event.
    • After a 40-year wait, Russian fans of The Beatles finally get to see former Beatle Paul McCartney perform on their soil, on the Red Square in Moscow.
  • May 31-June 1 – The inaugural Download Festival takes place at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England. Iron Maiden and Audioslave headline the main stage, the latter acting as replacements for original headliners Limp Bizkit. The Scuzz Stage is headlined by A and NOFX.
  • June 14
    • Alexander Kuoppala quit Children of Bodom.
    • David Del Tredici's Wondrous the Merge for string quartet and narrator, based on a homoerotic poem by James Broughton, makes its controversial debut at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.
    • Henry Ranta quits Soilwork.[18]
    • Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera kicked off their summer Justified & Stripped Tour.
    • Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 11th Annual of the Weenie Roast show with AFI, The Ataris, Blur, Chevelle, Deftones, Finch, Foo Fighters, Godsmack, Good Charlotte, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jane's Addiction, Less Than Jake, Liam Lynch, Staind, Sum 41, Thrice, The Transplants, The Used, The White Stripes and Pete Yorn.
    • Alice Cooper begins production of his 26th album. It is a departure from the heavy metal sound of previous albums and is more influenced by his albums of the 1970s.
  • June 22
    • Beyoncé releases her No.1 debut solo album Dangerously in Love, which would earn her 5 Grammys in a single night. It also spawned two No.1 singles in the US and has sold 11 million copies to date.
    • Nick Oshiro replaces Ken Jay in Static-X.
  • June 27–29 – In the Glastonbury Festival, U.K., headline acts include David Gray, R.E.M., Primal Scream, Morcheeba, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Lamb, Macy Gray, Feeder, Manic Street Preachers, Moby and Doves. The weather is mostly dry and the festival deemed a success from both a security and entertainment viewpoint by Michael Eavis.

July–August[]

  • July 2
    • A-Teens and many others perform at the Stockholm Pride festival.
    • Delta Goodrem is diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease.[19]
  • July 5Lollapalooza returns after a six-year absence from the music festival circuit. Jane's Addiction, Audioslave, Incubus and Queens of the Stone Age are among the featured acts.
  • July 11Judas Priest announces that Rob Halford has rejoined the band, with a reunion tour to follow in 2004.
  • July 14 – The eurodance and alternative rock musician Lynda Thomas made her last public appearance; she suddenly left the music industry and public life altogether.
  • July 19–20 – The Splendour in the Grass music festival takes place in Byron Bay, Australia, headlined by Powderfinger and Coldplay.
  • July 20 – An auto accident in Oregon kills three of the four members of The Exploding Hearts, ending the band after just one album.
  • July 30The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, The Guess Who and others headline a benefit concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to prove that the city is safe from SARS. With 450 thousand spectators, it is the largest concert in Canadian history.
  • August 19Jessica Simpson releases her third studio album In This Skin. The album would later go triple platinum in the U.S. and would produce the hit single "With You".
  • August 28Madonna sparks media controversy by kissing popstars Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. The situation even ignited a quick war of words between Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera over the kiss.

September–October[]

  • September 15Billy Corgan announces that Zwan has broken up.
  • September 16
    • Ryan Malcolm wins the first season of Canadian Idol.
    • David Bowie releases his twenty-third studio album Reality. The album would be Bowie's last for roughly a decade, with Bowie silently and gradually withdrawing into seclusion following an onstage heart attack the following year.
  • September 22Max Cavalera & Gloria Cavalera fire Marcello D. Rapp causing Roy Mayorga & Mike Doling to leave the band Soulfly in protest.
  • September 23Limp Bizkit release Results May Vary their first album in 3 years and their 4th album overall.
  • October – Indie/Rock band Conway wins the National "Battle of the Bands" Competition at the Fountain Pub in Tottenham, London, UK[citation needed]. The Norfolk, UK, band consists of Chris Burgoyne (vocals), Andrew Norman (lead guitar / vocals), Tristan McKelvey (guitar), Leon Chapman (bass) and Peter Rednall (drums).
  • October 4Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's The Rising Tour concludes after 120 shows over 14 months, with record-setting sales in U.S. stadiums during the summer and early autumn.
  • October 15 – A two-week-long international conference, "Fuori tempo, dire, fare, sentire la musica oggi", opens in Genoa, Italy, bringing together performers, composers, scholars and administrators from classical, folk and popular music, with a keynote address by Charles Rosen. Featured participants include Nuria Schoenberg (daughter of Arnold Schoenberg and widow of Luigi Nono); musicologist James Harrison; opera conductor Roberto Abbado; violinist Ivry Gitlis; composers Salvatore Sciarrino, Lorenzo Ferrero and Andrea Liberovici; poet Edoardo Sanguineti; popular singer-songwriters Teresa De Sio, Gianna Nannini and Gino Paoli; rock and jazz artists Peppe Servalo and Peppe D'Argenzio of the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel; and administrators Anna Cammarano (director of classical music at RAI Trade), Gennaro di Benedetto (superintendent of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa) and Joseph Hussek (director of the artistic programme at the Salzburg Festival).[20]
  • October 16Simon & Garfunkel begin their "Old Friends" U.S. reunion tour, twenty years after their 1983 world tour.
  • October 20Britney Spears releases the first single, "Me Against The Music", featuring American singer-songwriter Madonna, from her upcoming album In the Zone, marketed as a comeback single in the US; it goes on to be an international success, reaching the top three in several countries.
  • October 21Delta Goodrem wins 7 ARIA Awards and defeats Amiel's "Lovesong" for and a Gold ARIA for Single of the Year, Born to Try. ARIAs host Rove McManus announced that John Farnham will raise the very loud speakers to 1985/1986's "You're the Voice" after being inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
  • October 29 – A legal version of the Napster file sharing network relaunches as a pay service, offering song downloads for 99 cents apiece or $9.99 for unlimited listening.[21]

November–December[]

  • November 4Aaron Carter releases his first compilation album (fifth overall album under Jive Records) Most Requested Hits
  • November 5
    • Cryptopsy rehires Lord Worm.
    • Evanescence's lead guitarist and founding member Ben Moody leaves the band on their first world tour.
  • November 6 – Marco Aro quits his vocalist position in The Haunted. The band rehires their first vocalist, Peter Dolving.[22]
  • November 7 – Bassist Steve "Fuzz" Kmak is fired from Disturbed as a result of personality clashes with others in the band.
  • November 14
    • Band Pink Floyd reunites to perform at the funeral of their manager Steve O'Rourke.
    • Byron Stroud is confirmed as an official member of Fear Factory.
  • November 18
    • Blink-182 release their fifth studio album blink-182. This album was regarded as a change of musical style for Blink-182 as the music has darkened and matured since their previous albums.
    • Britney Spears releases In the Zone. She breaks her own record as the first female artist to have 3 albums in #1 to become the first female artist to have 4 albums in #1 consecutively.
    • Michael Jackson releases the compilation album Number Ones.
  • November 19Guy Sebastian becomes the first winner of Australian Idol, receiving a contract with BMG Australia. He subsequently records the studio album, Just As I Am. Shannon Noll was named the runner-up.
  • November 20Michael Jackson is arrested on charges of child molestation. The singer faced similar charges in 1993 that were dropped after an out-of-court financial settlement was reached with the family of a boy. In light of the new accusations, the television network CBS chooses to pull the scheduled November 26 airing of a one-hour television special intended to promote Jackson's new greatest hits album, Number Ones.[23]
  • November 21Korn release their sixth studio album, Take a Look in the Mirror. It is the last album that features the original lineup of Korn.
  • November 22 – The band Five Iron Frenzy plays its last show at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver.
  • December 6
    • Elvis Costello and Diana Krall are married in a private ceremony at Elton John's estate in England.
    • P-Funk founder George Clinton is arrested and charged with drug possession in Tallahassee, Florida.
  • December 8Ozzy Osbourne is rushed into emergency surgery after having a serious accident riding an all-terrain vehicle on the grounds of his English estate. Osbourne broke his collarbone, eight ribs and a vertebra in his neck.[24]
  • December 12Mick Jagger is knighted for services to music by The Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.[25]
  • December 13-14 – The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 14th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas show with AFI, Blink-182, Brand New, Chevelle, The Distillers, Jane's Addiction, Jet, KoЯn, Linkin Park, The Offspring, P.O.D., Pennywise, Puddle of Mudd, Rancid, Staind, 311, Thrice and Trapt.
  • December 30-31 – The New Year's Eve Falls Festival in Australia, traditionally held in Lorne, Victoria, holds events in both Lorne and Marion Bay, Tasmania, at the same time. The same artists perform at both events, alternating between the two venues each night.

Bands formed[]

See Musical groups established in 2003

Bands reformed[]

Bands disbanded[]

Albums released[]

January–March[]

Date Album Artist Notes
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6 Taman Langit Peterpan -
7 Hate Crew Deathroll Children of Bodom -
Glitter 4 Your Soul Rikki Rockett -
Inertia The Exies -
Living Out Loud Aaron Lines -
10 Follow the Call Britt Nicole -
13 Acapulco Therese -
Le Chemin Kyo -
Up All Night The Waifs -
14 Cabinet Spawn of Possession -
Pain to Kill Terri Clark -
Rusty Nails Jackie Greene -
What You Want Is Now House of Heroes -
16 Threatcon Delta Neil Turbin -
17 Chasing Your Tomorrows Candîce -
18 Rock the Block Krokus -
19 Summer 2003 Anthrax EP
20 Masterplan Masterplan -
Woodsmoke Nest -
6 Supersilent -
21 Live in Japan 2002 Simple Plan Live
Music in High Places Unwritten Law Live
The Networks, the Circuits, the Streams, the Harmonies Burnside Project -
One Bedroom The Sea and Cake -
Simple Things Remixes Zero 7 Remix
Such Great Heights The Postal Service EP
Ultimate Yanni Yanni Compilation
22 Elements, Pt. 1 Stratovarius -
25 The Heartless Control Everything Chiodos EP
27 Waste 'Em All Municipal Waste Debut
Other People's Songs Erasure Covers album
28 Alive Again Nightingale -
...And Don't Forget to Breathe A Static Lullaby -
The Heat Death of the Universe Off Minor -
Mary Star of the Sea Zwan -
Master and Everyone Bonnie 'Prince' Billy -
New Arrival A*Teens -
Playin' Around Play -
The Raven Lou Reed -
This Is It: The Best of Faith No More Faith No More Compilation
29 Valenti BoA Japan
31 Epica Kamelot -
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3 Disco 3 Pet Shop Boys Compilation
Enemy of the Enemy Asian Dub Foundation -
Nocturama Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -
4 The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects -
Boomslang Johnny Marr and the Healers -
Canterbury Fayre 2001 Hawkwind Live
Chasing Daylight Sister Hazel -
The Dreamer Blake Shelton -
Halloween Frank Zappa Live 1978
Keith Sweat Live Keith Sweat Live
Let Go Nada Surf -
Love The Juliana Theory -
Wormwood Moe -
6 Get Rich or Die Tryin' 50 Cent -
8 Calendar Days The Rocket Summer -
9 Fingers Crossed Architecture in Helsinki -
10 Another Late Night: Kid Loco Kid Loco Compilation
The Beyond Cult of Luna -
An Elefant Never Forgets The Herd -
100th Window Massive Attack -
11 Any Given Thursday John Mayer Live
The Desert Storm Mixtape: Blok Party, Vol. 1 DJ Envy -
Do It For Love Hall & Oates -
Free Brad Johner Debut
The Essential Ozzy Osbourne Ozzy Osbourne Compilation
Ethnicity Yanni -
Heart Stars -
Hearts of Oak Ted Leo and the Pharmacists -
How to Start a Fire Further Seems Forever -
Michael Bublé Michael Bublé -
Next Big Thing Vince Gill -
Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad -
We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones Various Artists Ramones tribute
17 Animositisomina Ministry -
Chocolate Factory R. Kelly -
Office of Strategic Influence OSI -
One Kill Wonder The Haunted -
18 Cyclorama Styx -
Deep Water Slang V2.0 Zion I -
Famous Among the Barns Ben Taylor -
Feast of Wire Calexico -
Give Up The Postal Service -
Jennifer Hanson Jennifer Hanson -
Under the Tray Reggie and the Full Effect -
You Are Free Cat Power -
19 All Else Failed Zao Re-issue
The Black Mages The Black Mages -
23 Beginnings Memento -
The Austin Sessions Edwin McCain -
24 Blood Duster Blood Duster -
Everything's Eventual Appleton -
Souvenirs The Gathering -
25 The Art of Losing American Hi-Fi US
Baby I'm Bored Evan Dando -
The Beautiful Letdown Switchfoot -
Deuce The D.O.C. -
Divided Highway The Doobie Brothers Compilation
Forty Hour Train Back to Penn The Movielife -
Icarus The Forms -
Livin' Legend B.G. -
The Music The Music US
Nate Dogg Nate Dogg -
Philadelphia Freeway Freeway -
Thalía's Hits Remixed Thalía Remix
Valley of the Damned DragonForce -
26 Enchant Emilie Autumn -
M
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3 Fly Sick Puppies EP
Human Zoo Gotthard -
Zitilites Kashmir -
4 Avalanche Matthew Good -
The Best of Run DMC Run-D.M.C. Compilation
Every Given Moment Stereomud -
Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home The Angels of Light -
Fallen Evanescence US
Hootie & the Blowfish Hootie & the Blowfish -
Joyride Oleander -
La Bella Mafia Lil' Kim -
Magnolia Electric Co. Songs: Ohia -
More Parts per Million The Thermals Debut
The Power to Believe King Crimson -
Revolusongs Sepultura EP
So Long, Astoria The Ataris -
Street Dreams Fabolous -
The Ugly Organ Cursive -
The Well's on Fire Procol Harum -
Where Shall You Take Me? Damien Jurado -
5 Oh My Sister Soulhead -
6 Too Fantastic Plastic Machine -
7 Just Listen Seven -
Put on Your Rosy Red Glasses The Number Twelve Looks Like You -
10 Hate Them Darkthrone -
Reason Melanie C -
11 Becoming i Ünloco -
Diamonds on the Inside Ben Harper -
Dust DJ Muggs -
The Essential Clash The Clash US; Compilation
Everything Will Never Be OK Fiction Plane -
Evolve Ani DiFranco -
Hellalive Machine Head Live
I Love It Craig Morgan -
Just One More Mad Caddies -
Level II Blackstreet -
Log 22 Bettie Serveert -
Monster Killer Mike -
Recreation Day Evergrey -
Sing the Sorrow AFI -
26 Songs Melvins -
Slow Motion Daydream Everclear -
Sounds of St. Lucia: Live Acoustic Alchemy Live
Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do Relient K -
Volume 4 Joe Jackson -
17 Atticus: ...dragging the lake, Vol. 2 Various Artists Compilation
Back in the World Paul McCartney Live
Hellraiser: Best of the Epic Years Motörhead Compilation
Neon Nights Dannii Minogue International
18 Apple O' Deerhoof -
Blackout Hed PE -
Boomkatalog.One Boomkat Debut
Catch the Rainbow: The Anthology Rainbow Compilation
Hittin' the Note The Allman Brothers Band -
I'm Just a Girl Deana Carter -
Kill or Be Killed Biohazard -
Live in Brazil Concrete Blonde Live
Pig Lib Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks -
Stash Box EP Kottonmouth Kings EP
Supper Smog -
Transfiguration of Vincent M. Ward -
Da Undaground Heat, Vol. 1 MC Lyte -
19 Dix Infernal Moi dix Mois -
Long Gone Before Daylight The Cardigans -
21 Get Back The Basics Debut
Innocent Eyes Delta Goodrem -
24 The Pop Hits Roxette Compilation
Ringo Rama Ringo Starr -
26 Mixes for Cash Aphex Twin Remix
U-Turn Brian McKnight -
Viva Emptiness Katatonia -
25 Balls & My Word Scarface -
Double Live Annihilation Annihilator Live
Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend Fall Out Boy EP
House of 1000 Corpses: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Rob Zombie/Various Artists Soundtrack
Let 'Em Burn Hot Boys -
Mes courants électriques Alizée -
Meteora Linkin Park -
Now That's What I Call Music! 12 (U.S. series) Various Artists Compilation
One Heart Celine Dion -
Regaining Unconsciousness NOFX EP
Rules of Travel Rosanne Cash -
Scattered Ashes: A Decade of Emperial Wrath Emperor Compilation
Destination: Beautiful Mae
Stacie Orrico Stacie Orrico -
Star 702 -
Top of the World Tour: Live Dixie Chicks Live
27 Likferd Windir -
31 Nordland II Bathory -
Up in Flames Manitoba -
The Very Best of the Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground Compilation

April–June[]

Date Album Artist Note
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1 Chris Cagle Chris Cagle -
Danse Macabre Remixes The Faint Remix
Elephant The White Stripes -
The Essential Electric Light Orchestra Electric Light Orchestra Compilation
The Essential Stabbing Westward Stabbing Westward Compilation
Guitar Romantic The Exploding Hearts -
Keep on Your Mean Side The Kills -
The Secret of Elena's Tomb ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead EP
Sleeping with Ghosts Placebo -
Tomorrow Come Today Boysetsfire -
Weather Systems Andrew Bird -
2 Transatlantic Demos Neal Morse -
Fairman Min Ji-hoon Debut Korean-language solo studio album
7 Vehicles & Animals Athlete -
8 Adoration: The Worship Album Newsboys -
Ailleurs land Florent Pagny -
Blaze Lagwagon -
The Blueprint 2.1 Jay-Z -
Faceless Godsmack -
Hatefiles Fear Factory Compilation
Mouthfuls Fruit Bats -
Rainy Day Music The Jayhawks -
Revolutions per Minute Rise Against -
The Senior Ginuwine -
Soul Food Taqueria Tommy Guerrero -
Summer Sun Yo La Tengo -
Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid Elefant -
Thickfreakness The Black Keys -
26 Miles Sean Watkins -
West for Wishing Matchbook Romance EP
To Whom It May Concern Lisa Marie Presley -
World Without Tears Lucinda Williams -
13 The Great Fall Narnia -
14 Below the Lights Enslaved -
Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts M83 -
Love Metal HIM -
Now That's What I Call Music! 54 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation
The Path Show of Hands -
15 Ball Widespread Panic -
A Beautiful World Thicke re-release of Cherry Blue Skies
Day I Forgot Pete Yorn -
Dragonfly Ziggy Marley -
Have You Forgotten? Darryl Worley -
Mescalero ZZ Top -
Now Jessica Andrews -
Say You Will Fleetwood Mac -
Thankful Kelly Clarkson -
18 The Link Gojira -
22 American Life Madonna -
Atomic Kitten Atomic Kitten -
The Blessed Hellride Black Label Society -
Classic Eric B. & Rakim Compilation
Damnation Opeth -
Darker Than Black Cage -
Dopesmoker Sleep -
The Essential Byrds The Byrds Compilation
Everybody Loves You Kaki King -
Into the Valley of Death Death by Stereo -
Kimi Ga Suki Matthew Sweet -
Kristyles KRS-One -
A Night at the Booty Bar Disco D -
Sans Souci Frenzal Rhomb -
Serart Serart -
Shine Daniel Lanois -
Songs of Life Bret Michaels -
Skeletons Nothingface -
39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World) Caesars Compilation
White1 Sunn O))) -
23 More Like the Moon Wilco EP
Osavurio: Ai wa Matte Kurenai Kaori Iida -
24 Exclusive U2 EP; iTunes
Welcome to Dun Vegas Peatbog Faeries -
28 Black Cherry Goldfrapp -
The Trouble with Being Myself Macy Gray UK
The World According to RZA RZA -
29 Fever to Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs -
He's Keith Murray Keith Murray -
The Matrix Reloaded: The Album Various Artists Soundtrack
Meet the Girl Next Door Lil' Mo -
? Frengers Mew -
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5 High Anxiety Therapy? -
Mind Revolution Skyfire -
Rounds Four Tet UK
Think Tank Blur -
Welcome to the Monkey House The Dandy Warhols -
6 Alcazarized Alcazar -
As the Palaces Burn Lamb of God -
Being Ridden Cex -
Beneath This Gruff Exterior John Hiatt -
Blueprints for the Black Market Anberlin -
Body Kiss The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley, aka Mr. Biggs -
BR Instrumentals Cex -
Committed to a Bright Future Dog Fashion Disco -
Dirty Sweet Jet EP
DPGC: U Know What I'm Throwin' Up Daz Dillinger -
Electric Version The New Pornographers -
Figure Number Five Soilwork -
Jalopy Go Far Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer -
Movement Gossip -
O' Cracker Where Art Thou? Cracker -
On and On Jack Johnson -
One Word Extinguisher Prefuse 73 -
Politics of the Business Prince Paul -
Scandinavian Leather Turbonegro US
Send Wire -
Take This to Your Grave Fall Out Boy -
The War on Errorism NOFX -
We've Come for You All Anthrax -
When I Pretend to Fall The Long Winters -
Mit Gas Tomahawk
10 Pandemonium! B2K -
Reviens Garou -
12 A Flock of Bleeps Younger Brother -
Late Night Tales: Nightmares on Wax Nightmares on Wax Compilation
The Michael Franks Anthology: The Art of Love Michael Franks Compilation
Singles Box Set 1981-1985 Duran Duran Box Set
13 Days of our Lives Bro'Sis -
The Golden Age of Grotesque Marilyn Manson -
Good Mourning Alkaline Trio -
The Impossibility of Reason Chimaira -
Out of the Vein Third Eye Blind LP & DVD
Sumday Grandaddy -
Year of the Spider Cold -
19 Something Dangerous Natacha Atlas -
Vulnerable Tricky -
20 A Cass McCombs -
Almas del Silencio Ricky Martin -
Anthem Less Than Jake -
Birds of Pray Live -
Black Like Sunday King's X -
Born to Be Free Sonique -
Boz Scaggs Boz Scaggs Covers album
Cyborgs Revisited Simply Saucer Re-issue
Deftones Deftones -
Fire Electric Six -
For All the Drugs in the World Sponge -
14 Shades of Grey Staind -
Harem Sarah Brightman -
I Am the Fun Blame Monster! Menomena -
Laughing City Eisley EP
Live: Hallelujah Sammy Hagar and The Waboritas Live
Mississippi: The Album David Banner -
Not in My Name Saul Williams EP
Places for Breathing Revis -
Poodle Hat "Weird Al" Yankovic -
The Promise Earth, Wind & Fire -
Rabbit Don't Come Easy Helloween -
The Streetsweeper, Vol. 1 DJ Kay Slay -
Transform Powerman 5000 -
Über Alles Hanzel Und Gretyl -
Vicious Cycle Lynyrd Skynyrd -
When Broken Is Easily Fixed Silverstein -
22 C21 C21 -
24 Lucky Bastards Peter Pan Speedrock -
26 Friend or Foe? Blackmail -
Led Zeppelin DVD Led Zeppelin DVD
Where Have You Been Tonight? Live Shed Seven Live
27 Falling Uphill Lillix -
How the West Was Won Led Zeppelin Live 1972
In Between Now and Then O.A.R. -
Leave a Whisper Shinedown -
The No Fun EP Local H EP
Olympia Deuxmilletrois Marc Lavoine Live
Rooney Rooney -
Roorback Sepultura -
So Much for the City The Thrills -
Smile Empty Soul Smile Empty Soul -
Tubular Bells 2003 Mike Oldfield -
Winterheart's Guild Sonata Arctica -
30 Atlantis Princess BoA -
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2 Best: The Greatest Hits of S Club 7 S Club 7 Compilation
Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation Darkest Hour -
Paper Monsters Dave Gahan Europe
You Gotta Go There to Come Back Stereophonics -
3 0304 Jewel -
2003 Warped Tour Compilation Various Artists Compilation
Dream to Make Believe Armor for Sleep -
Ego War Audio Bullys -
Explode The Unseen -
From There to Here: Greatest Hits Lonestar Compilation
Home Simply Red -
In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete Miles Davis -
In the Pursuit of Leisure Sugar Ray -
Liberation: Songs to Benefit PETA Various Artists Compilation
Mighty The Planet Smashers -
Moe Life Big Moe -
My Private Nation Train -
Paper Monsters Dave Gahan North America
Redwood Lunasa -
Shootenanny! Eels -
Something to Crow About Riverboat Gamblers -
Soul Journey Gillian Welch -
Trouble No More John Mellencamp -
We Were Born in a Flame Sam Roberts -
5 The Phantom Agony Epica Debut Album
Windwardtidesandwaywardsails Down by Law -
6 Greatest Hits LeAnn Rimes Compilation
St. Anger Metallica -
9 Hail to the Thief Radiohead -
10 Bare Annie Lennox -
Blackout Dropkick Murphys -
Dance with My Father Luther Vandross -
Everything Must Go Steely Dan -
Joe Budden Joe Budden -
Justin Guarini Justin Guarini -
Mest Mest -
The Movement Inspectah Deck -
The Movement Mo Thugs -
New Sacred Cow Kenna -
Playwutchyalike: The Best of Digital Underground Digital Underground Compilation
Replay Play -
Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys The Beach Boys Compilation
Trigger In Flames EP
Ultimate Kenny G Kenny G Compilation
Welcome Interstate Managers Fountains of Wayne -
16 Taste the Secret Ugly Duckling -
The Vertigo of Bliss Biffy Clyro -
17 After the Storm Monica -
Ambulance LTD Ambulance LTD Debut; EP
Arachnophobiac Michael Schenker Group -
Are We Really Happy with Who We Are Right Now? Moneen -
AttenCHUN! Bone Crusher -
A Blessing in Disguise Green Carnation -
Chapters Amorphis -
Deja Entendu Brand New -
Decoration Day Drive-By Truckers -
Finger Eleven Finger Eleven -
Ghost of a Rose Blackmore's Night -
Happy Songs for Happy People Mogwai -
Here Comes the Indian Animal Collective -
In Response This Day Forward -
Life Is Killing Me Type O Negative -
The Man on the Burning Tightrope Firewater -
A Match and Some Gasoline The Suicide Machines -
MCMLXXXV Rufio -
Passenger Passenger -
Rememberese The Stills EP
Stupidity Bad Manners -
Take Me to Your Leader King Geedorah pseudonym of MF Doom
Translating the Name Saosin EP
True Reflections Boyd Tinsley -
Unhallowed The Black Dahlia Murder Debut album
Waiting for the Moon Tindersticks -
18 Venus and Other Hits Bananarama Compilation
20 Dangerously in Love Beyoncé -
23 Kerrang! High Voltage Various Artists Compilation
Live Kreation Kreator Live
24 Aesthetic From First to Last EP
Almost Famous Lumidee -
Between the Never and the Now Vendetta Red -
Bittersweet Blu Cantrell -
De-Loused in the Comatorium The Mars Volta -
Elephunk The Black Eyed Peas -
A Flame to the Ground Beneath Lost Horizon -
Hotel Paper Michelle Branch -
I Am the Movie Motion City Soundtrack -
Keep It Together Guster -
Liz Phair Liz Phair -
The Ownerz Gang Starr -
Population Me Dwight Yoakam -
Radio Contact Acoustic Alchemy -
Re:Mix Momentum TobyMac -
Shades of Blue Madlib -
Southwest Daz Dillinger -
Da Unbreakables Three 6 Mafia -
30 Lovers The Sleepy Jackson -
Parts of the Process (The Very Best of Morcheeba) Morcheeba Compilation

July–September[]

Date Album Artist Notes
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1 Chapter II Ashanti -
Frail Words Collapse As I Lay Dying -
The Green Book Twiztid -
History for Sale Blue October -
Hot Damn! Every Time I Die -
Live Our Lady Peace Live
Michigan Sufjan Stevens -
Take a Break Me First and the Gimme Gimmes -
Time Will Tell Robert Cray -
You Come Before You Poison the Well -
2 Radwimps Radwimps -
4 Vulture Street Powderfinger Australia
6 Stop Stepping on My Head The Roy Clark Method EP
7 North Atlantic Drift Ocean Colour Scene -
Officially Dead Veruca Salt EP
8 Black August Killah Priest -
Broken Freedom Song: Live from San Francisco Kris Kristofferson Live
Diamond Dave David Lee Roth -
Far from Nowhere Slick Shoes -
Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 1 Trace Adkins Compilation
Maybe Memories The Used Compilation
Noise for Music's Sake Napalm Death Compilation
Scooby Snacks: The Collection Fun Lovin' Criminals Compilation
Thalía Thalía -
Yes Remixes Yes Remix
Young Liars TV on the Radio EP
10 WWE Originals World Wrestling Entertainment/Various Artists -
14 Late Night Tales: Sly & Robbie Sly & Robbie Compilation
Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers) Manic Street Preachers Compilation
Season for Assault 8 Foot Sativa New Zealand
Two Conversations The Appleseed Cast -
15 Greatest Hits Live 2003 April Wine Live
Jackpot Chingy -
Limelite, Luv & Niteclubz Da Brat -
Making the Grade Diffuser -
Other Hours: Connick on Piano, Volume 1 Harry Connick, Jr. -
P-Bone Steak Peelander-Z -
Red Dirt Road Brooks & Dunn -
The Trouble with Being Myself Macy Gray US
Wave on Wave Pat Green -
Year of the Rabbit Year of the Rabbit -
17 Promise of Love The American Analog Set -
20 Transformer Bruce Kulick -
21 Feeler Pete Murray -
Now That's What I Call Music! 55 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation
Phantom Power Super Furry Animals -
22 The Artist in the Ambulance Thrice -
Chariot Gavin DeGraw -
Dude Descending a Staircase Apollo 440 -
Evolver 311 -
Freaky Friday: Original Soundtrack Various Artists Soundtrack
Friends of Mine Adam Green US
It's All in Your Head Eve 6 -
A Lethal Dose of American Hatred Superjoint Ritual -
Man in the Air Kurt Elling -
Moodring Mýa US
Mud on the Tires Brad Paisley -
N.E.W.S Prince -
Now That's What I Call Music! 13 (U.S. series) Various Artists Compilation
Ocean Avenue Yellowcard -
Rip the Jacker Canibus -
Special One Cheap Trick -
Speed Graphic Ben Folds EP
Strays Jane's Addiction -
Three Days Grace Three Days Grace -
Tribe Queensrÿche -
What Are You Waiting For? FM Static -
23 Killing Joke Killing Joke -
24 BEGIN no Ichigo Ichie Begin -
The Poets, The Psalms, and the Psalmists DeWayne Woods -
28 Blue Street (Five Guitars) Chris Rea -
LSG2 LSG -
Lycanthropy Patrick Wolf -
Magic and Medicine The Coral -
The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection Yes UK; Box Set
29 Carpenters Perform Carpenter Carpenters Compilation
Down upon the Suwannee River Little Feat Live
Enemies of Reality Nevermore -
Pass the Flask The Bled -
Sink or Swim Over My Dead Body -
War at the Warfield Slayer DVD
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1 The Vinyl Countdown Relient K EP
4 D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat Junior Senior -
Final Straw Snow Patrol UK
Tour de France Soundtracks Kraftwerk -
5 Belinda Belinda Peregrín -
Best of Ballads & Blues Poison Compilation
D. Boon and Friends D. Boon Compilation
Emotional Technology BT -
Frozen Embers The Crüxshadows EP
Get the Picture? Smash Mouth -
Jeff Jeff Beck -
Quebec Ween -
Thickskin Skid Row -
Truth Be Told Blues Traveler -
What the World Needs Now Is Love Wynonna Judd -
11 Kokopelli Kosheen UK
Rising Shakra -
12 A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar Dashboard Confessional -
Canada Songs Daughters -
Celebrate Mistakes Number One Gun -
Classic Hits Live Kottonmouth Kings Live
Dungeons & Dragons Midnight Syndicate Official soundtrack to the role-playing game
5 Alive! Carbon Leaf Live
Go Pat Benatar -
Greatest Hits Volume II Alan Jackson Compilation
Legacy: the Absolute Best The Doors Compilation
This Is Meant to Hurt You These Arms Are Snakes Debut EP
Triggernometry Onyx -
18 Cast of Thousands Elbow UK
Genes Dave Couse -
No Push Collide Serafin -
Live Box Björk Box Set
19 Action Pact Sloan -
Clones The Neptunes -
Dierks Bentley Dierks Bentley -
From Me to U Juelz Santana -
Giving the Devil His Due Coal Chamber Compilation
Greendale Neil Young -
Hypnotica Benny Benassi -
Indestructible Rancid -
In This Skin Jessica Simpson -
Restless Sara Evans -
Rupi's Dance Ian Anderson -
Simple Things Amy Grant -
Trap Muzik T.I. -
TruANT Alien Ant Farm -
Unleashed Bow Wow -
Unstable Adema -
Youth and Young Manhood Kings of Leon -
21 BEGIN no Ichigo Ichie 58 Drive Begin -
Metaphorical Music Nujabes -
22 Back Home Bearfoot Bluegrass -
25 Alleys to Valleys Hermitude Debut album
Chain Gang of Love The Raveonettes -
Take Them On, On Your Own Black Rebel Motorcycle Club UK
The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed The Wildhearts -
26 Anchors Aweigh The Bouncing Souls -
Anthems of Rebellion Arch Enemy US
Burning Down the Opera Edguy Live
Crimson II Edge of Sanity -
Drankin' Patnaz YoungbloodZ -
Everything Goes Numb Streetlight Manifesto -
Hit & Run Big Sugar Compilation
Live! The Farewell Tour Cher Live
Love & Life Mary J. Blige -
Love, Hell or Right Mathematics -
Metamorphosis Hilary Duff -
Reverie Sound Revue Reverie Sound Revue EP
Visions of Gandhi Jedi Mind Tricks -
Waking the Fallen Avenged Sevenfold -
The Wind Warren Zevon -
Wooden Leather Nappy Roots -
31 What Do I Have to Do? Stabbing Westward Compilation
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1 I Get Along EP The Libertines EP
Anthology Ocean Colour Scene Compilation
Zzyzx Zeromancer -
2 Breathing Is Irrelevant Ion Dissonance -
Dance of Death Iron Maiden -
Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? Metric -
Take Them On, On Your Own Black Rebel Motorcycle Club US
Underworld Various artists Soundtrack
Vintage Michael Bolton -
3 Halcali Bacon Halcali -
Warts and All: Volume 3 Moe Live
8 Amazing Grace Spiritualized -
Death Cult Armageddon Dimmu Borgir -
Echoes The Rapture -
Empty the Bones of You Chris Clark -
Hand Over Your Loved Ones Wheatus -
9 Alexisonfire Alexisonfire US
Bananas Deep Purple -
Close My Eyes The Slackers -
The Decline of British Sea Power British Sea Power -
Doll Revolution The Bangles -
Feel It Some Girls -
A Few Questions Clay Walker -
The Fiction We Live From Autumn to Ashes -
From the Ashes Pennywise -
Hallucinations David Usher -
Heavier Things John Mayer -
Her Majesty the Decemberists The Decemberists -
Hot Shit! Quasi -
It Still Moves My Morning Jacket -
Love Is the Only Soldier Jann Arden -
The Meadowlands The Wrens -
The New Romance Pretty Girls Make Graves -
Seal IV Seal aka Seal IV
Self-Destructive Pattern Spineshank -
She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty Sinéad O'Connor 2x CD; 1 disc rarities, 1 disc live
Show Me Your Tears Frank Black and the Catholics -
Welcome to Poppy's Fun Lovin' Criminals -
Wellwater Conspiracy Wellwater Conspiracy -
Wildwood Flower June Carter Cash -
The Wolf Andrew W.K. -
10 Vulgar Dir en grey -
11 Smash The Octopus Flattbush -
12 Keepin' It Country Brett Kissel -
Reason and Truth Concept -
15 Absolution Muse -
Higher Harem Scarem -
I Am Kloot I Am Kloot -
Reality David Bowie -
Rock Rock Kiss Kiss Combo The Fashion -
Silence Is Easy Starsailor -
Traveler Colin James -
Underachievers Please Try Harder Camera Obscura -
16 The August Engine Hammers of Misfortune -
Before Everything & After MxPx -
Billy Talent Billy Talent CRIA: 3x Platinum
Call It Conspiracy Dozer -
Deliverance Bubba Sparxxx -
Go Tell It on the Mountain The Blind Boys of Alabama -
Grand Champ DMX -
The House Carpenter's Daughter Natalie Merchant -
Identity Crisis Shelby Lynne -
Ima Robot Ima Robot -
In Reverie Saves the Day -
Me & My Brother Ying Yang Twins -
Melvinmania Melvins Compilation
Page Avenue Story of the Year -
Permission to Land The Darkness -
The Soul Sessions Joss Stone US
Thirteenth Step A Perfect Circle -
Vaudeville Villain Viktor Vaughn pseudonym of MF Doom
Walk witt Me Sheek Louch -
War All the Time Thursday -
Worldwide Underground Erykah Badu EP
17 Big Machine B'z -
Soul Free Brown Eyed Soul -
19 Alcachofa Ricardo Villalobos -
Glittercard Torun Eriksen -
No Turning Back Imelda May -
Pass Me the Mic Will Pan -
Who's Your Step Daddy Funkoars Debut
21 Absolution Muse UK
22 The Calling Hilltop Hoods -
Give You My World Phil Wickham -
Greatest Hits & Unheard Bits Space Compilation
23 The Best of Deicide Deicide Compilation
Best of Madball Madball Compilation
The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits! Pantera Compilation
Bringer of Blood Six Feet Under -
Caught by the Window Pilot Speed Canada
Cheers Obie Trice -
Comin' from Where I'm From Anthony Hamilton US
Couldn't Have Said It Better Meat Loaf -
Dark Chords on a Big Guitar Joan Baez -
The Eyes of Alice Cooper Alice Cooper -
Fatherfucker Peaches -
Gallowsbird's Bark The Fiery Furnaces -
Go Vertical Horizon -
The Greatest Story Ever Told The Lawrence Arms -
The Long Road Nickelback -
The Mavericks The Mavericks -
Mechanical Spin Phenomena Mnemic -
Murphy's Law Murphy Lee -
Natural Selection Fuel -
North Elvis Costello -
Past, Present & Future Rob Zombie Compilation
The R. in R&B Collection, Vol. 1 R. Kelly Compilation
Results May Vary Limp Bizkit -
Savin Hill Street Dogs -
Seven's Travels Atmosphere -
Some Devil Dave Matthews -
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Outkast -
Stellastarr Stellastarr -
Stories and Alibis Matchbook Romance -
Stumble into Grace Emmylou Harris -
Testimony Neal Morse -
Untying the Not String Cheese Incident -
Unwrapped Gloria Estefan -
Want One Rufus Wainwright -
Want That Life The Fixx -
With Vision Place of Skulls -
WWIII KMFDM -
24 Another Day Lene Marlin -
Spade Monkey Majik -
25 BEGIN no Ichigo Ichie Drive in Starter Begin -
26 The Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls -
t.A.T.u. Remixes t.A.T.u. Remix
29 The Antidote Moonspell -
Clubfiles – the Album DJ Quicksilver -
Don't Look Back into the Sun/Death on the Stairs The Libertines EP
HTP 2 Hughes Turner Project -
Sacred Love Sting -
2nd Verse So Solid Crew -
Volume 1 The Besnard Lakes -
30 33 Luis Miguel -
Amar Es Cristian Castro -
Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook Bette Midler -
Billy Currington Billy Currington -
Changes Kelly Osbourne -
Confession Ill Niño -
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album Jethro Tull Christmas
The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer Donna Summer Complication +2 new tracks and remix on US limited edition bonus disc
Lead Us Not into Temptation David Byrne -
Life For Rent Dido -
Live at Monsters of Rock Gary Moore Live
Martina Martina McBride -
Money Money 2020 The Network -
My Baby Don't Tolerate Lyle Lovett -
Now That's What I Call Christmas!: The Signature Collection (U.S. series) Various Artists Compilation
Perfecto Presents Great Wall Paul Oakenfold Remix
School of Rock: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture Various Artists Soundtrack
See If I Care Gary Allan -
Singles 93–03 The Chemical Brothers Compilation
Sunny 16 Ben Folds EP

October–December[]

Date Album Artist Notes
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1 Evil Never Dies Toxic Holocaust -
Howl Howl Gaff Gaff Shout Out Louds -
2 Hollow Dreams Stigmata -
Reflections Apocalyptica -
6 Dear Catastrophe Waitress Belle & Sebastian -
7 2nd to None Elvis Presley Compilation
21st Century Live Styx Live/DVD
Accelerate Jump5 -
All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan Kenny Chesney -
...And Time Begins Decrepit Birth -
Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People Primus LP/DVD
Birth of a Prince RZA -
Chicken-n-Beer Ludacris -
Collideøscope Living Colour -
Comfort to the Soul Ana Popović -
Total Eclipse Black Moon -
Countrysides Cracker -
Decade of the Nail Spiked Bat Jag Panzer Compilation
Farm Fresh Onions Robert Earl Keen -
Get Born Jet -
Greatest Hits Wyclef Jean Compilation
Hope Non-Prophets -
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Coheed and Cambria -
Katonah Apollo Sunshine -
A Kiss in Time Patty Griffin -
Later That Day Lyrics Born -
The Lemon of Pink The Books -
Live at the House of Blues Guttermouth Live/DVD
Make the Clocks Move Kevin Devine -
Mr. Snowman John Michael Montgomery -
Nu-Mixx Klazzics 2Pac Remix
Reflections Paul van Dyk -
The Room's Too Cold The Early November -
Santamental Steve Lukather -
Seasons Sevendust -
The Second Great Awakening Fireball Ministry -
Shadow Zone Static-X -
Softcore Jukebox Ladytron Compilation
Stone Deaf Forever! Motörhead Box Set
The Struggle Cappadonna -
Transatlanticism Death Cab for Cutie -
West Koasta Nostra Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. -
8 And the Story Goes Agnes Monica -
13 The Curse of Blondie Blondie -
It All Starts Here Jem EP
Morning Sci-Fi Hybrid
1 Fille & 4 Types Celine Dion -
12 Memories Travis -
14 As Time Goes By: the Great American Songbook 2 Rod Stewart Covers album
Blackberry Belle The Twilight Singers -
Boy in Da Corner Dizzee Rascal -
Bucketheadland 2 Buckethead -
Careful What You Wish For Texas -
Christmas Is Almost Here Again Carly Simon Christmas
Chrome, Smoke & BBQ ZZ Top Box Set
Comfort Woman Me'shell Ndegeocello -
Coral Fang The Distillers -
The Essential Simon and Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel Compilation
Ember to Inferno Trivium -
For Never and Ever Kill Hannah -
Hard Jagged Edge -
Honesty Rodney Atkins -
Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton Various Artists Dolly Parton tribute
Long Black Train Josh Turner -
Measure of a Man Clay Aiken -
The Movie Album Barbra Streisand -
The Remixes Mariah Carey Remix
XIII Mushroomhead -
16 The Crusader Scribe -
Mój czas Patrycja Markowska -
17 One Crimson Night HammerFall Live
18 Being Somebody Liberty X UK
19 Infame Babasónicos -
20 Country Life Show of Hands -
Frank Amy Winehouse -
Hái! The Creatures -
Kish Kash Basement Jaxx -
Singles Suede Compilation
21 Astronomy Bleach -
Choirs of the Eye Kayo Dot -
Chutes Too Narrow The Shins -
Come Feel Me Tremble Paul Westerberg -
Coverage Mandy Moore Covers album
Ethernaut The Crüxshadows -
Everything to Everyone Barenaked Ladies -
Group Therapy Dope -
Interventions + Lullabies The Format -
Kickin' It at the Barn Little Feat -
Lambhouse: The Collection 1991-1998 Unsane Compilation
Logic Will Break Your Heart The Stills -
MFZB Zebrahead -
MH Marques Houston -
Neurosis & Jarboe Neurosis & Jarboe -
North Something Corporate -
Puss 'n' Boots Crash Test Dummies -
Rush in Rio Rush Live/DVD
The Silent Circus Between the Buried and Me -
Streetcore Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros -
The Terror State Anti-Flag -
Twentysomething Jamie Cullum -
The Very Best Of Eagles Compilation
A Very Special Acoustic Christmas Various Artists Christmas
We Sweat Blood Danko Jones -
What's Wrong With This Picture? Van Morrison -
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? The Unicorns -
22 The Flag of Punishment Galneryus -
Paradinome: Koi ni Mi o Yudanete Kaori Iida -
24 The Cat Empire The Cat Empire -
27[26] Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics Pete Rock Compilation
Bodysong Jonny Greenwood Soundtrack; UK
Forget Yourself The Church -
In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 R.E.M. Compilation; UK
The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) The Fall UK
Three Sugababes UK
Through the Ashes of Empires Machine Head UK
28 DevilDriver DevilDriver -
Harry for the Holidays Harry Connick, Jr. Christmas
Hits! – The Very Best of Erasure Erasure -
Modern ARTillery The Living End -
Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg Billy Bragg Compilation
Notes & Photographs JamisonParker EP
The Rise of Brutality Hatebreed -
Room on Fire The Strokes -
Ultimate Run-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C. Compilation
31 Another Way Teenage Bottlerocket -
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1 The Journey Continues Bradley Joseph -
3 Against Me! as the Eternal Cowboy Against Me! -
Guilty Blue UK
Hit Peter Gabriel Compilation
In Your Own Time Mark Owen -
Love Is Hell pt. 1 Ryan Adams EP
A Natural Disaster Anathema UK
Severance Daysend -
Underworld 1992–2002 Underworld Compilation
4 15 Year Killing Spree Cannibal Corpse Compilation
Afterglow Sarah McLachlan -
Blood in My Eye Ja Rule -
Choronzon Akercocke -
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy -
Coldplay Live 2003 Coldplay US; Live
Come Poop with Me Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog -
Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand Relient K Christmas
Dinosaur Sounds Catch 22 -
The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place Explosions in the Sky -
Ghosts of the Great Highway Sun Kil Moon -
The Glad Fact Dirty Projectors
Here Comes That Weird Chill Mark Lanegan EP
Married to the Game Too Short -
The Matrix Revolutions: Music from the Motion Picture Don Davis Soundtrack
Most Requested Hits Aaron Carter Compilation
Avril Lavigne: My World Avril Lavigne Live
Now That's What I Call Music! 14 (U.S. series) Various Artists Compilation
Payable on Death P.O.D. -
The Preacher's Son Wyclef Jean -
Purple on Time U.S. Maple -
The Sceptre of Deception Falconer -
Shock'n Y'all Toby Keith -
Sixty Six to Timbuktu Robert Plant Compilation
Skull Ring Iggy Pop -
This Left Feels Right Bon Jovi Compilation
Ultimate Toni Braxton Toni Braxton Compilation
The Very Best of Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow Compilation
5 Smoking Monkey Jonathan Coulton -
6 Love Mika Nakashima -
7 Salvation Lies Within Faith -
10 Ladies Night Atomic Kitten -
Late Night Tales: Jamiroquai Jamiroquai Compilation
Live from Faraway Stables Silverchair Live
State of Mind Holly Valance -
11 Another 700 Miles 3 Doors Down EP
The Essential Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen Compilation
Kid Rock Kid Rock -
Live from the Road Chevelle Live
Lost Dogs Pearl Jam Compilation
SoulO Nick Lachey -
Soundtrack to the Apocalypse Slayer Box Set
Thank You Stone Temple Pilots Compilation
Train of Thought Dream Theater -
Try This Pink -
Tupac: Resurrection Tupac Shakur Soundtrack
14 Beg for Mercy G-Unit -
The Black Album Jay-Z -
Louis XIV Louis XIV -
15 The Morning Never Came Swallow the Sun Debut album
17 Ether Song Turin Brakes -
Let It Be... Naked The Beatles Remix
Now That's What I Call Music! 56 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation
A Present for Everyone Busted -
Tales of a Librarian Tori Amos Compilation
Turn It On Ronan Keating -
18 Ashanti's Christmas Ashanti Christmas
At Last Cyndi Lauper -
The Biggest and the Best Slick Shoes Compilation
Blink-182 Blink-182 -
Body Language Kylie Minogue -
The Central Park Concert Dave Matthews Band Live/DVD
Collide Skillet -
18 B Sides + DVD Moby Compilation & DVD
The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology Joe Satriani Compilation
Greatest Hits Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Heavy Swollen Members -
I Can't Stop Al Green -
I'm One of You Hank Williams, Jr. -
In the Zone Britney Spears US
The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology Steve Vai Compilation
Live at Largo Glen Phillips Live
Live in Texas Linkin Park Live DVD
Maryland Mansions Cex -
Number Ones Michael Jackson Compilation
One Wish: The Holiday Album Whitney Houston Christmas
Revolutionary Vol. 2 Immortal Technique -
Room To Breathe Reba McEntire -
Under Construction, Part II Timbaland & Magoo -
Weekend Warrior Biz Markie -
19 Kimi Tsunagi Five M Asian Kung-Fu Generation -
21 Take a Look in the Mirror Korn -
22 All Request Live Ween Live
23 Call Off the Search Katie Melua UK
24 Dedicated Lemar -
Introduction Alex Parks -
Pop Art: Pet Shop Boys - The Hits Pet Shop Boys -
Remixed & Revisited Madonna Remix + 1 new track
The Soul Sessions Joss Stone UK
Turnaround Westlife -
25 Blitzen Trapper Blitzen Trapper -
Da Derrty Versions: The Reinvention Nelly -
Elocation Default -
Films about Ghosts Counting Crows Compilation
Folklore Nelly Furtado -
Life on Display Puddle of Mudd -
Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium Rage Against the Machine Live
The Make Yourself at Home EP The Starting Line EP
Now and Forever: The Hits TLC UK; Compilation
Part II Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz -
7 Enrique Iglesias -
The Singles 1992-2003 No Doubt Compilation +1 new track
This Is Not a Test! Missy Elliott -
Unearthed Johnny Cash Box Set
29 Happiness The Weepies -
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1 Daft Club Daft Punk Remix
The Firebird Suite - Archives The Firebird Band -
When Goodbye Means Forever... I Killed the Prom Queen -
2 And Then ... Joe -
Comin' on Strong Trace Adkins -
My First Time Look What I Did -
My Own Thing Manafest -
The Diary of Alicia Keys Alicia Keys US
8 Just as I Am Guy Sebastian -
Lichtspielhaus Rammstein DVD
Strachy na Lachy Strachy na Lachy -
9 Big Money Heavyweight Big Tymers -
Tha Dogg: Best of the Works Snoop Dogg Compilation
Fefe Dobson Fefe Dobson -
Home Ryan Malcolm -
Hot & Wet 112 -
Live at Brixton Academy Motörhead Live
Love Is Hell pt. 2 Ryan Adams EP
Nick Cannon Nick Cannon -
The Reason Hoobastank -
Soulful Ruben Studdard -
Soulstar Musiq -
Splinter The Offspring -
Tasty Kelis -
Terrorist Threats Westside Connection -
12 Atarashiki Nihongo Rock no Michi to Hikari Sambomaster -
16 Extended Play Denver Harbor EP
The Lex Diamond Story Raekwon -
M.A.D.E. Memphis Bleek -
17 Legendary Zao Compilation
23 Juve the Great Juvenile -
MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water David Banner -
Riffs Status Quo -
25 Ultimate Circus Nightmare -
27 I Look I See Yusuf Islam -
31 Porch Life Big D and the Kids Table -

Release date unknown[]

  • All Got Our Runnins EP – The Streets
  • Arcade FireArcade Fire
  • Kill Sound Before Sound Kills YouKid 606
  • Bootlegged, Distorted, Remixed and UploadedPitchshifter
  • Live from the GaietyThe Dubliners (live)
  • First Demo TapeMinor Threat || EP
  • The Sauce – Eddie Spaghetti
  • Still ElectricPrimitive Radio Gods
  • Strawberry Bubblegum10cc – Compilation
  • To Madagascar and Back EP/DVD – Flickerstick
  • Natural Wonder - Phoebe Snow
  • Try Honesty / Living in the Shadows EP – Billy Talent
  • 25 Miles to KissimmeeFools Garden
  • Velvet Lined Shell EP – Toyah
  • Watching the SnowMichael Franks (Japanese release)

Top 5 albums of Billboard year[]

  1. 50 CentGet Rich or Die Tryin'
  2. Norah JonesCome Away With Me
  3. BeyoncéDangerously in Love
  4. Michael JacksonNumber Ones
  5. Dixie ChicksHome

Top 10 Selling Albums of the Year US[]

  1. Get Rich or Die Tryin'50 Cent
  2. Come Away with MeNorah Jones
  3. StrippedChristina Aguilera
  4. Number OnesMichael Jackson
  5. MeteoraLinkin Park
  6. Dangerously in LoveBeyoncé
  7. A Rush of Blood to the HeadColdplay
  8. FallenEvanescence
  9. In the ZoneBritney Spears
  10. Let GoAvril Lavigne

Popular songs[]

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  • "2+2=5" – Radiohead
  • "21 Questions" – 50 Cent
  • "Addicted" – Simple Plan
  • "The Anthem" – Good Charlotte
  • "All I Have" – Jennifer Lopez
  • "American Life" – Madonna
  • "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" – Jet
  • "Baby Boy" – Beyoncé featuring Sean Paul
  • "Beautiful" – Christina Aguilera
  • "The Beautiful Occupation" – Travis
  • "Be Mine" – David Gray
  • "Behind Blue Eyes" – Limp Bizkit
  • "Born to Try" – Delta Goodrem
  • "Bounce" – Bon Jovi
  • "Breathe" – Blu Cantrell featuring Sean Paul
  • "Bring Me to Life" – Evanescence
  • "Business" – Eminem
  • "California" – Phantom Planet
  • "Cannonball" – Damien Rice
  • "Can't Hold Us Down" – Christina Aguilera featuring Lil' Kim
  • "Can't Stop" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • "Cassé" – Nolwenn Leroy
  • "Chihuahua" – DJ Bobo
  • "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" – The Darkness
  • "Clocks" – Coldplay
  • "Colors" – Hikaru Utada
  • "Come Clean" – Hilary Duff
  • "Come Over" – Aaliyah
  • "Crazy in Love" – Beyoncé
  • "Did My Time" – KoЯn
  • "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" – Dannii Minogue
  • "Entre Nous" – Chimène Badi
  • "Everyway That I Can" – Sertab Erener
  • "Faint" – Linkin Park
  • "Fan" – Pascal Obispo
  • "Feeling This" – Blink-182
  • "Feel Good Time" – Pink
  • "Fighter" – Christina Aguilera
  • "Flying Without Wings" – Ruben Studdard
  • "For What It's Worth" – The Cardigans
  • "Forever and for Always" – Shania Twain
  • "Get Low" – Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz
  • "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" – Coldplay
  • "Go to Sleep" – Radiohead
  • "Going Under" – Evanescence
  • "Girls & Boys" – Good Charlotte
  • "Headstrong" – Trapt
  • "The Hell Song" – Sum 41
  • "Here Without You" – 3 Doors Down
  • "Hit That" – The Offspring
  • "Hold On" – Good Charlotte
  • "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us" – My Chemical Romance
  • "Hey Oh" – Tragédie
  • "Hey Ya!" – OutKast
  • "Hurt" – Johnny Cash
  • "Hysteria" – Muse
  • "I Begin to Wonder" – Dannii Minogue
  • "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" – The Darkness
  • "I'm with You" – Avril Lavigne
  • "If I Can't" – 50 Cent
  • "In Da Club" – 50 Cent
  • "Innocent Eyes" – Delta Goodrem
  • "Into the West" – Annie Lennox
  • "It's My Life" – No Doubt
  • "J'en ai marre!" – Alizée
  • "Just the Way I'm Feeling" – Feeder
  • "L'Orange" – Star Academy 3
  • "Laisse parler les gens" – Jocelyne Labylle and Cheela featuring Jacob Desvarieux and Passi
  • "The Last Song" – The All-American Rejects
  • "Laura" – Scissor Sisters
  • "Le Frunkp" – Alphonse Brown
  • "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" – Good Charlotte
  • "Like a Stone" – Audioslave
  • "Losing Grip" – Avril Lavigne
  • "Lost Without You" – Delta Goodrem
  • "Love at First Sight" – Kylie Minogue
  • "Mad World" – Gary Jules and Michael Andrews
  • "Ma Liberté de penser" – Florent Pagny
  • "Mandy" – Westlife (UK)
  • "Maybe Tomorrow" – Stereophonics
  • "Me Against the Music" – Britney Spears featuring Madonna
  • "Me Myself and I" – Beyoncé
  • "Ménage à Trois" – Alcazar
  • "Miracles" – Pet Shop Boys
  • "Miss Independent" – Kelly Clarkson
  • "Milkshake" – Kelis
  • "Minerva" – Deftones
  • "Mobile" – Avril Lavigne
  • "Move Your Feet" – Junior Senior
  • "My Immortal" – Evanescence
  • "My Love Is Like...Wo" – Mýa
  • "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)" – Lumidee
  • "No Good Advice" – Girls Aloud
  • "Not Gonna Get Us" – t.A.T.u.
  • "Not a Sinner Nor a Saint" – Alcazar
  • "Not Me, Not I" – Delta Goodrem
  • "Nothing But You" – Paul van Dyk
  • "Numb" – Linkin Park
  • "One More Chance" – Michael Jackson
  • "Out of Control" – Hoobastank
  • "Out of Time" – Blur
  • "Over My Head (Better Off Dead)" – Sum 41
  • "Papi chulo... (te traigo el mmmm...)" – Lorna
  • "Paris-Latino" – Star Academy France
  • "Perfect" – Simple Plan
  • "P.I.M.P." – 50 Cent
  • "Price to Play" – Staind
  • "Pump It Up" – Joe Budden
  • "Punk Rock 101" – Bowling for Soup
  • "Rain on Me" – Ashanti
  • "Right Thurr" – Chingy
  • "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" – Jason Mraz
  • "Remember" – Disturbed
  • "Rock wit U (Awww Baby)" – Ashanti
  • "Rock Your Body" – Justin Timberlake
  • "Satisfaction" – Benny Benassi
  • "Señorita" – Justin Timberlake
  • "Seven Nation Army" – The White Stripes
  • "Silver and Cold" – AFI
  • "Sing for the Moment" – Eminem
  • "Shake Ya Tailfeather" – Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee
  • "So Far Away" – Staind
  • "So Yesterday" – Hilary Duff
  • "Someday" – Nickelback
  • "Somewhere I Belong" – Linkin Park
  • "Songbird" – Oasis
  • "Sorry 2004" – Ruben Studdard
  • "Special Needs" – Placebo
  • "Spitting Games" – Snow Patrol
  • "St. Anger" – Metallica
  • "Stacy's Mom" – Fountains of Wayne
  • "Still Waiting" – Sum 41
  • "Stupid Girl" – Cold
  • "Such Great Heights" – The Postal Service
  • "Summer Jam" – The Underdog Project
  • "Superman" – Eminem
  • "Sur un air latino" – Lorie
  • "Swing, Swing" – The All-American Rejects
  • "There There" – Radiohead
  • "The Road I'm On" – 3 Doors Down
  • "This Is the Night" – Clay Aiken
  • "Time Is Running Out" – Muse
  • "Times Like These" – Foo Fighters
  • "Time Stands Still" – The All-American Rejects
  • "Trouble" – Pink
  • "Universally Speaking" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • "Until the Day I Die" – Story of the Year
  • "Unwell" – Matchbox Twenty
  • "The Voice Within" – Christina Aguilera
  • "Way Away" – Yellowcard
  • "The Way You Move" – OutKast & Sleepy Brown
  • "Where Is the Love?" – The Black Eyed Peas featuring Justin Timberlake
  • "White Flag" – Dido
  • "The Wreckoning" – Boomkat
  • "Why Can't I?" – Liz Phair
  • "Why Not" – Hilary Duff
  • "Year 3000" – Busted
  • "You Said No" – Busted

Classical music[]

  • Leonardo BaladaEbony Fantasies (cantata for choir and orchestra)
  • George Crumb
    • A Journey Beyond Time for soprano, percussion quartet and piano.
    • Otherworldly Resonances for two pianos
    • River of Life for soprano, percussion quartet and piano
  • Mario DavidovskyDuo Capriccioso for piano and violin
  • Peter Maxwell Davies
    • Naxos Quartet No. 2
    • Naxos Quartet No. 3
  • Péter Eötvös
    • Erdenklavier-Himmelklavier, for piano
    • Jet Stream, concerto for trumpet and orchestra
  • Elisenda FábregasVoces de mi tierra for flute, cello and piano
  • Rolf GehlhaarCybersong for tenor and wearable electronics
  • Philip Glass
    • Dreaming Awake for piano
    • Taoist Sacred Dance for piano and flute
    • Music from The Sound of a Voice for flute, pipa, violin, cello and percussion
  • Andrew GloverThe Death of Angels: A Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
  • Friedrich Goldmann
    • Herzstück, mini-drama for soprano, flute and guitar
    • Klangszenen III for orchestra
  • Haflidi Hallgrímsson – Cello Concerto
  • Mauricio Kagel
    • Andere Gesänge, intermezzi for soprano and orchestra
    • Auftakte, achthändig for two pianos and two percussionists
  • Wojciech Kilar
    • Lament for mixed choir a cappella
    • Symphony No. 3 September Symphony
  • György LigetiHamburg Concerto for solo horn and chamber orchestra with four obbligato natural horns (1998–99, 2003)
  • Frederik MaglePhoenix for mixed choir and organ or piano four-hands
  • Mesías MaiguashcaK.O. Tagebücher, for two cellos, two percussionists and electronics
  • Henri Pousseur
    • Arioso monodie for female voice
    • Javanitas for violin and trombone
    • Litanie du miel des nuits hivernales for viola and piano
    • Rossignolade for female voice and clarinet
    • Voix et vues planétaires, multimedia
  • Alexander RaskatovThe Last Freedom
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
    • Amour, for saxophone
    • Klavierstück XIX
    • Mixtur 2003, for five instrumental groups, four sinewave-generator players, four sound mixers with four ring modulators and sound director
    • Vibra-Elufa, for vibraphone,
  • Steven Stucky
    • Jeu de timbres
    • Second Concerto for Orchestra

Opera[]

  • Deborah DrattellNicholas and Alexandra
  • Philip GlassThe Sound of a Voice
  • Osvaldo GolijovAinadamar
  • Michael NymanMan and Boy: Dada
  • Krzysztof PendereckiUbu Rex
  • Rachel PortmanThe Little Prince
  • Karlheinz StockhausenSonntag aus Licht (composition completed and, with it, the entire Licht cycle of seven operas)
  • Jörg WidmannDas Gesicht im Spiegel

Jazz[]

Musical theater[]

  • Avenue Q – Broadway production ran for 2534 performances (ranked 23rd on the list of all-time Broadway shows)
  • Belles belles belles, based on songs by Claude François, with music by Claude François, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre and Carolin Petit and lyrics by Claude François and Daniel Moyne; premiered at Olympia in Paris on November 21
  • Bounce – Chicago and Washington D. C. productions
  • The Boy from Oz – Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre and ran for 365 performances
  • Caroline or Change, book and lyrics by Tony Kushner and score by Jeanine Tesori, off-Broadway production
  • Fame on 42nd Street – Broadway production opened at the Little Shubert Theatre on November 11 and ran for 264 performances
  • The Full Monty – Melbourne production
  • Jerry Springer – The Opera – London production
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – London revival
  • Never Gonna Dance – Broadway production opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on December 4 and ran for 84 performances
  • Showtune, a Jerry Herman musical revue – off-Broadway production
  • Taboo – Broadway production opened November 13 and ran for 103 performances
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie – London production opened October 21, starring Amanda Holden, and ran for 8 months[27]
  • Tonight's The Night – London production
  • Wicked – Broadway production opened at the George Gershwin Theatre on October 30, starring Joel Grey,[28] and is still running as of 2019.

Musical film[]

  • 7:35 in the Morning (Academy Award-nominated short)[29]
  • The Adventure of Iron Pussy
  • Brother Bear (animated feature)
  • Camp
  • The Cheetah Girls (Disney Channel Original Movie – the first musical film by Disney Channel, bringing in over 84 million viewers)
  • End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
  • From Justin to Kelly
  • Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
  • The Jungle Book 2 (animated feature)
  • Love Under the Sun
  • A Mighty Wind
  • Pas sur la bouche
  • Pop Carn, starring Mohanlal and Simran Bagga[30]
  • School of Rock
  • The Singing Detective
  • Tupac: Resurrection
  • Vivir Intentando, starring the group Bandana[31]

Births[]

  • January 6Matty B, Australian rapper
  • January 23Bishara, Syrian-Swedish singer
  • January 24Johnny Orlando, Canadian singer-songwriter
  • February 10Blanco, Italian singer and rapper
  • February 20Olivia Rodrigo, American singer-songwriter
  • March 25George Alice, American singer-songwriter
  • March 26Bhad Bhabie, American rapper and songwriter
  • April 11Aksel Rykkvin, Norwegian singer
  • April 18Sophia Grace Brownlee, British singer (Sophia Grace & Rosie)
  • April 30Mikhail Smirnov, Russian singer-songwriter and actor
  • May 19JoJo Siwa, American singer dancer, actress, and YouTube personality
  • July 1Tate McRae, Canadian singer, songwriter, musician and dancer
  • August 17The Kid Laroi, Australian singer
  • September 1Yujin, South Korean singer
  • October 28 – Beatrice Millie McCartney, daughter of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. The McCartneys fooled the press into publishing misleading details about the birth.
  • December 9Yuna, South Korean singer and dancer (ITZY)
  • Keshav, tabla prodigy

Deaths[]

  • January 1Giorgio Gaber (63), actor, singer-songwriter
  • January 5
    • Doreen Carwithen (80), composer
    • Daphne Oram (77), composer and electronic musician
  • January 6Hirini Melbourne (53), New Zealand singer-songwriter and poet
  • January 8Ron Goodwin (77), composer and conductor
  • January 11Mickey Finn (55), bongo player and T.Rex sideman (liver failure)
  • January 12Maurice Gibb (53), Bee Gees singer and bassist (intestinal complications)[32]
  • January 15Doris Fisher (87), singer-songwriter[33]
  • January 23Nell Carter (54), singer and actress (heart disease)[34]
  • February 1Mongo Santamaría (80), Latin jazz percussionist[35]
  • February 2
    • Vincent "Randy" Chin (65), Jamaican record producer
    • Lou Harrison (85), composer
  • February 4Charlie Biddle, American-Canadian bassist, 76
  • February 11Moses Hogan (55), American pianist and composer
  • February 16Rusty Magee (47), American actor and composer
  • February 19Johnny Paycheck (64), country singer
  • February 20Ty Longley (31), guitarist of Great White (fire accident)
  • February 23Howie Epstein (47), bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • February 26Othar Turner (95), fife player
  • March 3
    • Hank Ballard (75), R&B singer (throat cancer)
    • Malcolm Williamson (71), composer
  • March 4Celly Campello (60), Brazilian singer-songwriter and actress (breast cancer)
  • March 8Adam Faith (62), singer, actor (heart attack)
  • April 1Leslie Cheung (46), actor, musician (suicide)
  • April 2Edwin Starr (61), soul singer (heart attack)
  • April 6Babatunde Olatunji (75), drummer (diabetes)
  • April 10Little Eva (59), singer (cervical cancer)
  • April 13Alex Baroni (35), singer (motorbike accident)
  • April 17Earl King (69), blues musician
  • April 19Conrad Leonard (104), composer and pianist
  • April 20Teddy Edwards (78), jazz saxophonist
  • April 21Nina Simone (70), singer and pianist
  • April 22Felice Bryant (77), Hall of Fame songwriter
  • May 4Arthur Oldham (76), composer and choirmaster
  • May 11Noel Redding (57), bassist of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (cirrhosis)[36]
  • May 15June Carter Cash (73), musician and singer
  • May 19Ivo Žídek (76), operatic tenor
  • May 25Jeremy Michael Ward (27), sound technician and guitarist
  • May 27Luciano Berio (77), composer
  • May 30Mickie Most (64), record producer (mesothelioma)
  • June 6Dave Rowberry (63), keyboardist (The Animals) (ulcer haemorrhage)
  • June 17Marcella Pobbé (81), operatic soprano
  • July 1Herbie Mann (73), jazz flautist (prostate cancer)
  • July 3Skip Scarborough (58), songwriter
  • July 4
    • André Claveau (87), singer
    • Barry White (58), singer and record producer (renal failure)
  • July 5Bebu Silvetti (59), pianist, composer, arranger and record producer (respiratory failure)
  • July 6
    • Skip Battin (69), singer-songwriter and bassist
    • Buddy Ebsen (95), actor and singer
  • July 7Izhak Graziani (79), conductor
  • July 12Benny Carter (95), jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader (bronchitis)
  • July 13Compay Segundo (95), Cuban guitarist, singer and composer
  • July 16Celia Cruz (77), salsa singer (brain tumor)
  • July 17Rosalyn Tureck (89), pianist
  • July 25Erik Braunn (52), guitarist Iron Butterfly (heart attack)
  • July 26Richard Wayne Dirksen (81), organist and choirmaster
  • July 27Bob Hope (100), actor, comedian and singer
  • July 30Sam Philips (80), producer and founder of Sun Records
  • August 2Don Estelle (70), actor and singer
  • August 5Tite Curet Alonso (77), songwriter (heart attack)
  • August 6Julius Baker (87), flautist
  • August 9Gregory Hines (58), actor, singer and dancer
  • August 10Carmita Jiménez, singer
  • August 13Ed Townsend (74), singer-songwriter
  • August 15Robert Moulson (70), operatic tenor
  • August 18Tony Jackson (55), singer and bass player (The Searchers)
  • August 21Wesley Willis (40), novelty musician
  • August 23Imperio Argentina (96), singer and actress
  • September 4
    • Lola Bobesco (82), violinist
    • Susan Chilcott (40), operatic soprano (breast cancer)
    • Tibor Varga (82), violinist and conductor
  • September 5Gisele MacKenzie (76), singer
  • September 7Warren Zevon (56), rock and roll singer; mesothelioma
  • September 12Johnny Cash (71), country and rock 'n roll singer
  • September 14John Serry, Sr. (88) concert accordionist, organist, composer, arranger
  • September 19Slim Dusty (76), country singer
  • September 25Matthew Jay (24), English singer-songwriter
  • September 26Robert Palmer (54), singer (heart attack)
  • September 27Donald O'Connor (78), actor, singer and dancer (congestive heart failure)
  • September 30Ronnie Dawson (64), rockabilly singer and guitarist
  • October 5Denis Quilley (75), actor and singer (liver cancer)
  • October 10Eugene Istomin (77), pianist (liver cancer)
  • October 21Elliott Smith (34), singer-songwriter
  • October 22Gabriella Gatti (95), operatic soprano
  • October 23Tony Capstick (59), comedian, actor and musician
  • October 24Rosie Nix Adams, singer-songwriter
  • October 25Robert Strassburg (88), composer, educator, musicologist
  • October 29Franco Corelli (82), operatic tenor
  • October 30Franco Bonisolli (65), operatic tenor
  • November 5Bobby Hatfield (63), singer (The Righteous Brothers)
  • November 9Buddy Arnold (77), jazz saxophonist
  • November 12Tony Thompson (48), drummer of Chic (kidney cancer)
  • November 14Gene Anthony Ray (41), actor and dancer (complications of a stroke)
  • November 15
    • Dorothy Loudon (70), actress and singer
    • Speedy West (79), American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
  • November 17
    • Arthur Conley (57), soul singer (intestinal cancer)
    • Don Gibson (75), country musician
  • November 18Michael Kamen (55), composer, conductor and musician (heart attack)
  • November 19Greg Ridley (56), English bassist (Humble Pie)
  • November 26Soulja Slim (26), rapper (homicide)
  • November 28Thekra, Tunisian singer (murdered by her husband)
  • December 8Rubén González (84), pianist
  • December 16Gary Stewart (59), country singer (suicide)
  • December 22Dave Dudley (75), country singer (heart attack)
  • December 27Vestal Goodman (74), gospel singer (influenza complications)
  • December 30Anita Mui (40), Hong Kong pop singer
  • December 31Sieglinde Wagner (82), operatic contralto

Awards[]

The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: AC/DC, The Clash, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, The Police, The Righteous Brothers

Miscellaneous[]

  • Leonard Cohen is made a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest honour.

ARIA Music Awards[]

  • ARIA Music Awards of 2003

Country Music Association Awards[]

  • Entertainer of the Year: Alan Jackson
  • Female Vocalist of the Year: Martina McBride

Eurovision Song Contest[]

  • Eurovision Song Contest 2003
  • Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003

Grammy Awards[]

  • Grammy Awards of 2003

Mercury Music Prize[]

Charts[]

Triple J Hottest 100[]

  • Triple J Hottest 100, 2003

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